Chapter 20 Songhua eggs become essence
"What's that? Egg? Listening to the fat man's answer, I was even more confused.
"Oh, it's not an egg, it's an egg...... Eggs bigger than a man. "The fat man corrects below.
Hearing him say this, I subconsciously looked at Liu Rumei, only to find that she also looked at me, probably thinking that she had heard it wrong, just like me.
"Let's go down and have a look." At this time, Wen Xianbao, who had not spoken much, opened his mouth and said, "Maybe it will be some kind of fossil." ”
"Fossils?" I repeated, but my mind spun around quickly, and then I muttered, "The most daring dinosaur egg fossil is only seventy or eighty centimeters, bigger than a human, so what kind of thing does it take to give birth?" ”
"Poof." Liu Rumei on the side was obviously amused by me, and said with a smile: "Maybe it's just a stone that looks like an egg, just go down and take a look." ”
She didn't wait for me to say anything more, she lowered her head and untied the rope, took out the pitons from her backpack and tied them, and then found a crack in the wall of the cave and inserted the pitons into it, and tried the sturdiness again before she raised her head and said, "Okay." ”
Wen Xianbao didn't say anything, just motioned for me to help hold on to the rope, and then he slid down the rope. As the gravel slid down, Wen Xianbao reached the bottom of the cave and heard him shout, "Okay, come down." ”
Liu Rumei and I also slid down one after another, and when we stood below and looked up, it was so dark that I couldn't see anything above, and I used a strong flashlight to illuminate it, only to find that the hole was indeed quite deep, and I was a little worried that I wouldn't be able to climb up for a while.
"Wang Bo, are you okay?"
"I'm fine, I can't die, even if I die, I will dedicate myself to the cause of archaeology, and I will die as I deserve......"
"It's okay, when I go back, I must go to the hospital for a good check-up, you can rest assured that the cost will be borne by the bureau......"
"Wen team, that's not a problem, you are well-informed, let's see what kind of treasure this is first......"
The voices of the fat man and Wen Xianbao came from the side, and Wen Xianbao had obviously taken a step forward. So, Liu Rumei and I also hurried over. Recently, after checking that the fat man's body was fine, I began to look at the "eggs" that the fat man said.
As the fat man said, this is the "egg", a huge "egg", one person tall, the ellipsoid stands on the side of the cave, it seems that the surface is not too smooth, at least the strong flashlight shines on it and does not reflect the light, perhaps because there is some dust on it.
"I'm rubbing, it's really an egg." I couldn't help but whisper a little bit, but the fat man heard it, and he said a little proudly: "Waste, believe it now, the fat man still doesn't know an egg." ”
Liu Rumei got closer, and she didn't know when, she took out a brush from her bag and began to clean up the dust on the surface of the "Dome". The fat man probably began to hurt his bruised muscles, and he grinned a little and rubbed his ass. I was holding a flashlight and helping her light up.
As the area she cleaned gradually expanded, some patterns gradually appeared on the surface of the "Dome", and under the illumination of the strong flashlight, the background color of the "Dome" looked black, so the patterns on the surface were not very obvious, and it looked a little like moire, but it didn't look like it when you recognized it carefully. The fat man may have also seen the cleaned pattern, leaned over and whispered, "Waste, what do you say this is?" ”
I glanced back at him and said, "Eggs." ”
The fat man also rolled his eyes at me, then limped next to Wen Xianbao and asked, "Team Wen, what do you think this is?" ”
"Huh? What the? Wen Xianbao stood at my side, and he didn't pay much attention to his expression, but when he listened to the fat man ask him, he was obviously a little absent-minded.
The fat man could only ask again, and then he said, "This ...... I don't know, but the pattern doesn't look like it's artificially carved. ”
What Wen Xianbao said, I have already seen it. The patterns on it do not look like they were engraved, and a closer look reveals that the surface is flat, while the moire-like patterns seem to be inside.
The fat man was lying very close, and while watching carefully, he "babbled...... Yikes...... This is a god thing......" muttered indistinctly. After a while, he seemed to suddenly remember something, suddenly straightened up, and said seriously: "Fat man, I understand, this thing is the same as Songhua eggs." ”
"Puff...... Liu Rumei laughed again, and the hand of the brush trembled.
"Xiaoyanagi, don't laugh, what I said is true." The fat man said with a stiff face on the side: "You see that this stone is black and translucent, and there are patterns, it must be a fossil of pine eggs." ”
"Haha......" Liu Rumei couldn't straighten up with a smile, so she simply squatted down and continued to laugh. I was immune to such serious nonsense from the fat man, so I ignored him and looked around the "Dome" with a bright flashlight.
At this moment, Liu Rumei's laughter stopped abruptly, and she said in surprise: "This ...... There's something in there. ”
"What?" The crowd was puzzled.
Liu Rumei pointed to the "giant dome" and said, "I just saw that there seems to be an object inside. ”
"Where? Where? Let me see. The fat man leaned over and asked Liu Rumei to show him.
"Here."
The fat man lay on it and looked at it for a long time, and finally said: "Xiaoyanagi, are you mistaken?" I don't think there's anything else here but some dust. ”
Liu Rumei shook his head and said, "It's not the surface, it's the inside." ”
"Inside?" The fat man pointed to one place and asked, "Is it here?" ”
"Hmm." Liu Rumei nodded.
The fat man stuck it on it and looked at it for a long time, smacking his lips and saying as he looked at it: "It's not dark, you can't see anything." ”
"This ......" Liu Rumei thought for a while and said, "It should be that Qin Fen was shining with a strong flashlight over there just now, and I saw it through the light." ”
"Xiaoyanagi, what do you mean this stone is transparent?" I asked curiously, looking at the black stone "dome" in front of me, I always felt that this black color should not be transparent.
"Waste, what nonsense are you talking about, hurry up and get over there, let the fat man take a look." The fat man didn't wait for Liu Rumei to speak, and directly pushed me. Of course, I didn't bother with him, and quickly walked to the opposite side and shone a strong flashlight on the stone "dome".
"Bah...... This really lets in the light. The fat man saw it clearly and said, "I'll wipe it...... The Songhua egg is fine, and there is an egg yolk in it. ”
After the fat man got out of the way, Wen Xianbao also came up, looked at it and said, "That Qin Fen, you change the position a little bit, I'll take a look." ”
I gently moved the light source, and the fat man said that there was an egg yolk in it, I didn't believe it, I guess it might be a piece of impurity wrapped in the stone, maybe this stone is somewhat similar to jade, so I simply asked Wen Xianbao: "Team Wen, what do you think is inside?" ”
“……”
Wen Xianbao didn't answer, Liu Rumei, who was squatting on the ground, saw it clearly, and said, "It looks like there's a lump inside, it's not an irregular circle, it's the size of a basketball." ”
I held a strong flashlight, because there was still a lot of dust on the surface of this side that had not been cleaned up, the flashlight was illuminated, gray, and I couldn't see anything, I was a little curious, and beckoned the fat man to hold the strong light flashlight for me, and then I leaned over to watch. I turned off the strong light flashlight in my hand, and Wen Xianbao's strong light flashlight was also turned off, only the fat man stood opposite, and the strong light flashlight was close to the "giant dome". At this time, the light in the cave dimmed, and "the situation in the dome became clear.
The entire "Dome" is a dark red, and the light transmittance is not very good, but you can vaguely see an almost circular shadow inside, and you can't tell what it is. I touched the surface lightly with my hand, and it felt like amber instead of jade. It occurred to me that this was a huge piece of amber, and that it might be the impurities that had been encased in it. But after thinking about it, let's not talk about how deep it is from the ground, how big a pine tree will flow pine resin down such a big piece of amber, and besides, the shape of this "giant egg" is too regular, no matter how you look at it, it is impossible for amber to form like this.
Wen Xianbao didn't say anything, which made me a little curious, so I peeked and found that he was staring at the "Dome" motionlessly. In the darkness, I always felt that there was something strange about his expression, and I couldn't tell what it was. Combined with the fat man's previous remarks, I have to wonder if he should know something about this "giant egg", but it seems that he is hiding something.
"Rumei, you clean up the rest of the part." Wen Xianbao straightened up as he spoke, turned on the bright flashlight in his hand, and then turned to leave. He paced and swept around with a flashlight, gradually moving away. Through the light, I realized that the cave below was also very large, and the "Dome" was basically in the center of the cave, and it looked empty and there was nothing else, and this "Dome" looked more like it was placed artificially.
Liu Rumei picked up the small brush again and began to clean up the dust on the "Dome", I saw Wen Xianbao walking away, and asked her in a low voice: "Xiaoliu, what do you think this thing is?" ”
"Hmm...... How to say it. Liu Rumei's work in his hand did not stop, and after thinking for a while, he said: "It's hard to say whether this thing is naturally formed, but just looking at it standing in the middle of the cave and there is nothing around it, I think this should be artificially placed here, maybe it is a kind of ritual, or for sacrificial purposes, it feels a bit like Shiva in India." ”
Listening to Liu Rumei say this, it coincided with my thoughts, and I nodded and said, "Yes." ”
The fat man sneaked up behind me at this time, lowered his voice and said, "Waste, do you think this thing will be jade?" ”
I shook my head and said, "Not really." ”
The fat man looked at me and shook his head and asked, "Is that some other gem?" ”
I reached out and touched the surface of the dome, then shook my head and said, "Not really, but it looks like pine resin or amber." ”
"Pine resin?" Liu Rumei, who was on the side, heard me say this, stopped what she was doing and said to me: "Alas, why didn't I expect it." ”
I saw that she suddenly remembered something, so I asked, "What did you think of?" ”